We are a group of French-speaking girls and boys living in Belgium (Brussels and Tournai). Here, we only know what the media show us about the situation in Palestine, which is very little and probably not always accurate. Last year, Tanguy (our former mathematic teacher) spent 1 week in Palestine and told us about it. We all felt moved and started to dream of going to Palestine and meeting young people living there – you..

Last week-end, we met Marianne Blume, a lady who taught French in Gaza for ten years and who explained to us the origins of the conflict, what happened and is still happening to the Palestinians and their country. We are now even more interested in meeting real Palestinian people !

Our project is to go to your country in April 2009 and stay in Aïda for about 10 days during which we would like to get to know you, hear you tell us about your life and dreams and tell you about ours. We would love to exchange things (ideas, music, dessert recipes J… ). We also thought it would be great to prepare an illustrated report together with you (film and interview each other). What do you think ? Tell us !
As you can see, most of us can speak and understand English, so please don’t answer only in Arabic J. We hope you’ll answer soon !

My name is Mazen, I’m 18 years old, I live in Doha city in Bethlehem. I sing in a rap group , we sing Arabic rap music to express things about ourselves and the issue in our country. I like travelling and my hobbies are photographing and acting. I’m trying to make a friends from the whole world so I would appreciate to make friend with you. I hope to see you soon, keep smiling !

My name is Manar, I’m 19 years old, I’m studying Educational sports at Alquds University. My hobbies are dancing, swimming, travelling, cooking. I would like to visit other countries in the world to see different places.

My name is Ahmed, I’m 20 years old, I’m studying in Bethlehem University as Information Technologies student. I work in Al-Rowwad Center as a IT system volunteer. I’m also part of the theater group. I like computing, theater, doing dabka dance, clowning I like creating friendly relationships with people around the world. I hope to meet your group as soon as possible

My name is Maysaa. I’m 21 years old, I’m studying administration and marketing at Alquds Open University. I love Palestine so much, it’s like my soul. My hobbies are swimming, travelling, and making very nice friendly relationships to make our life here nicer.

My name’s Salam, I’m 18 years old, I study V at the Open University. I have one sister and I work in Al-Rowwad Center as a volunteer. I’m a theator actor and I visited France and Egypt during a tour with our Center. I like the idea of creating a friendly relationship with you so much ! I will be the contact person for this project. See you soon my friends

My name is Ahmad, I’m 20 years old. I am interested in photography, drama, theatre. I join in many activities organised in Al-Rowwad Cultural and Theatre Training center. I have one brother, 5 sisters. I am the eldest. I like having friendly relationships with many people and I will be happy to have a friendly relationship with you. (I had to leave before they took the picture but there will be other opportunities of showing my face, for sure.)

I am Ribal. I am 19 years old and I’m studying Law at Alquds University. I play theatre and I went to Belgium last summer with the Al-Rowwad theatre group. I like travelling very much because it is an opportunity to meet people and make new friends. I am also a volunteer in AlRowwad Center. I organize activities for the youth of the camp. We all hope to be able to contact you very soon, maybe via skype or another software. So we will be able to talk to each other. That will be fun. We are sure that we will organize nice activities together